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Formed in 2000 by central government as a school improvement organisation to support Leicester City Council, the SDSA has since broadened its remit to become a highly regarded leader of projects and partnerships across children’s services.

The SDSA is a highly effective organisation with a project-managing core team and a flexible group of high quality associate consultants. This combination consistently secures good project outcomes for children, young people and our partner organisations.

These company arrangements provide the SDSA with the necessary flexibility and capacity (both volume and quality) to deliver large projects rapidly. Although our turnover and workforce reflect our status as a small organisation, the company’s expanding work portfolio over the years as an unfunded, not-for-profit organisation provides clear evidence of the capacity to deliver large scale activities. Recent contracts include local, regional, national and international work.

The strong SDSA company ethos as a no-nonsense, outcomes-focussed organisation is fundamentally important. A strong conviction for enterprising public service runs through all of our work to secure efficient, practical solutions.

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That brings our presence at #EdShow15 to an end. Thanks to everyone involved and the organisers @EducationShow http://t.co/LGN4LyWmbZ

This regional support network for the lead officers for child poverty in local authorities specifically supports child poverty needs assessment, the development of strategies and quality assurance of child poverty policies.

An academic support programme which was funded by the additional support funding for looked after children. The scheme was designed to support those looked after children who may need additional support via one-to-one coaching.